Peter Natz said to Marko: "He will pass out for about 4-6 hours, you go and call De Rong and Janssen, we will get him back to the courtyard as soon as possible." ”

Marco nodded in a panic and fled out of the room. As soon as he stepped out of the doorway, he saw a fellow poking his head into the room.

Marco quickly closed the door and looked at the guy nervously. The guy Li Er picked up the wine jug in his hand and explained, "This guest officer, this is the wine you want." ”

Relieved that the fellow hadn't seen what's inside the door, Marco pulled a silver coin out of his pocket and threw it on the tray.

"No, one of my companions is already drunk, so I'll give you this wine." Marco stammered in stiff Chinese.

Watching Marco even talk and gestur, Li Er finally understood what Marco meant, he immediately nodded and thanked him, and said, "Then guest officer, do you need me to find you a doctor to see your companion?" ”

Marco immediately waved his hand and refused: "No, no need, let's go, he's just drunk, just get some sleep." ”

As he spoke, Marco stiffly pulled Li Er's body and pushed him towards the stairs.

After Li Er went downstairs, he put the tray on the counter, and whispered to Shopkeeper Yao, who was settling accounts: "Shopkeeper Yao, there seems to be a problem with the Westerners in Haitang Pavilion these two times." ”

Shopkeeper Yao, who had gray hair, stopped calculating the accounts, raised his eyelids slightly, looked at Li Er and said, "What's the problem?" ”

Li Er stretched his head into the counter, and whispered in the ear close to the shopkeeper Yao: "Just now, these Westerners asked me to take another pot of wine, but as soon as I arrived at the door, a Westerner sent me back." ”

Shopkeeper Yao asked quietly, "They don't want to pay for wine?" ”

Li Er denied it: "That's not true, but when that Westerner came out, I saw a person lying on the ground in the room, and these people said they were drunk." But I don't think our family's wine seems to be so strong, and it took three people to drink less than two catties. Shopkeeper, don't something happen, right? ”

"Shut up, since they themselves say they're drunk, what are you messing with here? The guests in the northwest corner ask for wine, and you send this pot of wine over quickly, and the taste will deteriorate after a long time. ”

In the reprimand of the shopkeeper, Li Er left with the tray in a gray manner. After a while, 5 Westerners walked down the stairs, and the shopkeeper Yao carefully observed it out of the corner of his eye, and sure enough, the person who was said to be drunk didn't even move his footsteps, and it seemed that he was carried down by the two of them.

Peternats did his best to block Bill's side, blocking the view of others, and when he got downstairs, he motioned for Marco to go and settle the bill.

The distraught Marco didn't even notice that a rectangular piece bulged out of Peternats' chest.

As if he hadn't noticed anything, Shopkeeper Yao settled the account for Marco, and kindly suggested that they go directly to the inner courtyard of the inn from the back door of the restaurant, so that there is no need to take a detour.

Watching the Westerners leave in a hurry, Shopkeeper Yao walked into a small room behind the counter.

This is the accounting room of the restaurant, and it is also the place where Yao's shopkeeper settles accounts. In a small place, there are several wooden shelves on which are account books.

The two businessmen dressed as brocade guards were drinking tea in the room, and after the shopkeeper Yao came in, he closed the door casually, saluted the two respectfully, and then whispered: "Two adults, those Westerners have entered the backyard." ”

Xiaoqi Huang Bao breathed a sigh of relief, he couldn't let these Westerners find out that they were meddling in this matter, and he couldn't let others find out what was going on between these Westerners, so as to make the matter bigger, but he was worried for a long time.

"Great, continue to ignore these Westerners, and when they leave tomorrow, you won't have to do anything."

Although it was a cold winter, when Shopkeeper Yao came out of the account room, he was still sweating profusely.

After taking Bill back to the courtyard where he was staying, Janssen said anxiously, "Sir Peter, what should I do next?" If we let Bill wake up and alarm the Ming people, we'll be in trouble, do we have a way to get him back on the ship? ”

De Rong's eyes suddenly widened and said, "Are you crazy? The sailors on the ship had always had a close relationship with Bill, and God knows what would happen if we saw us bring Bill back like this.

This is Asia, and the sailors who betrayed the company and became pirates are not one or two. In my opinion, it is better to simply..."

Derong made a gesture to wipe his neck, Yang Sen's face turned a little pale, and Marco immediately objected angrily: "You are the madman, this is the Ming Kingdom, not a reckless land without laws, do you want us to be hanged by the Ming people?" ”

"Alright, stop arguing." Peter Natz interrupted a few people, "I already have an idea, De Rong, you go to the street to buy a box and come back, Janssen, you tie Bill with a rope, Marko, you guard the yard and don't let people in, I'll pay a visit to President Xu, and we'll use his boat to get Bill out of Mingguo." ”

"Alright, sir, I need some, though—" De Rong held his hat in one hand and rubbed his index finger and thumb a few times in the other.

Peter Natz took out a money bag made of deerskin from his bosom and threw it upside down. He warned De Rong: "I will give you my share of what I promised, but don't play any tricks with me, if things go wrong, I won't let you go." ”

"Don't worry, sir. Now that you're our head, I'm not going to shoot myself in the foot. De Rong caught the money bag with his hat, a flattering smile on his face, and then turned away in a happy mood.

Xiaoqi Huang Bao, who was sitting in the account room, immediately received the news, he just thought about it for a while, and then said: "At this time, he went up to find a box with people, found someone to lead him to the coffin shop, replaced the owner of the coffin shop with our own people, and then found someone to help him carry the coffin back..."

By the time Peternatz returned, it was already a little dark. He looked at the coffin in the courtyard and was startled.

He quickly looked outside the door and immediately closed the courtyard door. He stood on the steps and whispered to Derong who greeted him: "What are you doing, buy a coffin and come back, are you afraid that others will not know that you are going to transport a person on the boat?" ”

Derong shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "I can't help it, I haven't found a wooden box containing Lower Bill in the two nearby streets, unless I cut him in two." If it's custom-made, it will take at least three days, and I don't think you can wait that long. ”

Peter Natz was stunned for a moment, and finally said with some worry: "So how are we going to get him on board?" Get a coffin and send it to the ship, and the Ming people on the dock will not fail to check it. ”

Derong said nonchalantly: "I have inquired, as long as we say that he died of a pimple, those Ming people will not open the museum for inspection." ”

"Pimple disease?" 2 people were a little puzzled

"That's what we call the Black Death."

"Holy shit, may God bless this open-mouthed bastard." Malcolt began to pray.

Peternats and Janssen also looked a little unnatural, and when Marco finished praying, Peternats immediately said, "Don't be stunned, get Bill into the coffin, and then find someone to carry him to the dock." I've already agreed with Mr. Hsu that Bill will get him on his ship, Marco, you and I, De Rong and they will go back to Taiwan first, and leave early tomorrow morning..."

Under the cover of night, the Tianjin wharf was brightly lit tonight, standing beside the Jinyi guard holding the torch, Lu Jiude watched a coffin tied with a rope slowly disappear into the boat, and finally turned back to Xiaoqi Huang Bao and said: "Great, finally send the goods out, let the others return to Beijing tomorrow, you take the two of you and me on the ship." ”

"Obedience." Huang Bao and the brocade guards on the side saluted Lu Jiude together, and under the firelight, Lu Jiude smiled a little proudly.

In Xu Xinsu's room at the Huang Inn, a gray-haired eunuch had just changed all of Bill's name to Peternats in the "Trade Agreement between the Ming Kingdom and the Dutch East India Company".

"It's good, there's almost no problem." Xu Xinsu said happily with the text of the trade agreement.

The old eunuch was a little unconvinced and said: "Actually, the miscellaneous family can be seamless, why do you want to leave these traces?" ”

Xu Xinsu didn't want to offend the eunuchs in the palace, and he explained with a smile: "If it's seamless, how can we prove in the future that the Dutch have done something to their own text." ”

"Doing something? Will it be necessary to prove that this text is a forgery in the future? "The old eunuch was a little confused.

"Don't you think there's a page missing between the page signed by the two countries and the official content of the agreement in front of it?" Xu Xinsu pointed to the text of the agreement and showed it to the old eunuch.

"It seems like it's just a numbering error." The old eunuch looked at it carefully and said. At this time, there was no formal legal document format, in other words, neither the East nor the West was aware of the number of pages in legal documents.

In this trade agreement, the number of pages is as high as 2-30 pages, and each article is written in Chinese and Latin, which can be said to be the most official document writing in this era that meets the standards of later documents.

However, the page numbers written in the document are not only very small but also very light, and they also use Chinese numerals. As long as you don't look closely, you can't see that a page is missing.

The old eunuch said with some doubts: "Even if we write something on this page, but those Westerners don't approve of it, isn't it meaningless?" ”

Xu Xinsu smiled and took back the document from the old eunuch's hand and said, "If our force is insufficient, of course it is meaningless. However, if our forces are sufficient, isn't that the best name for starting a war? ”